DNA Fingerprinting - Justifying the Special Need for the Fourth Amendment's Intrusion into the Zone of Privacy

Authors

Deborah F. Barfield, University of Richmond

Abstract

The Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from conducting unreasonable searches and seizures.When claims arise against the government's Fourth Amendment transgressions, usually those claims turn on interpretation of the term "reasonable." Traditionally, a search and seizure conducted under the authority of a judicial warrant for "probable cause" is unquestionably reasonable.In some, albeit very limited, types of searches reasonableness is met with at least "individualized suspicion."When searches intrude into the human body, however, they implicate a person's most deep-rooted expectation of privacy - the right to be left alone.

Recommended Citation

Deborah F. Barfield, DNA Fingerprinting - Justifying the Special Need for the Fourth Amendment's Intrusion into the Zone of Privacy, 6 Rich. J.L. & Tech 27 (2000).
Available at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/jolt/vol6/iss5/8